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Business News Gangnam Style BREAKS YouTube 64-bit upgrade required to keep counting K-Pop tune aboard its prancing pony Top Apple exec: 'I knew [ebook] prices were going to go up – hell, the whole world knew' Eddy Cue blasts cyber-tome price-fix ruling ahead of appeal Bloke, 36, in the cooler for leaking ex's topless pics on Facebook Scumbag jailed for a year in California revenge porn first Brit smut slingers shafted by UK censors' stiff new stance No sex please, we're idiots – new ban on XXX acts in effect If the COMMISH says block that email account, BLOCK IT! Listen carefully, and you’ll hear Larry Page hitting the delete button Gorilla Glass maker gobbles Samsung's fibre optic biz Corning beefs up optical comms in Asia MEPs want 'unbiased search', whatever that is – they're not sure either Don't feel lonely, Google, EU Parl takes swing at Amazon, eBay too Hortonworks falls well short of billion dollar IPO expectations We've Had it Oop to here with over-enthusiastic valuations Knockoff knockdown: Euro cops shutter 300 'counterfeit' domains You're just gonna have to pay full price for your prezzies Channel News Alternative Networks CEO talks up the fluffy white stuff LSE-listed biz works on single cloudy platform to launch.... in 24 months Ausgezeichnet! Logicalis devours German channel biz Infra-kit and services outfit Inforsacom joins parent group Datatec Data Centre News Interop lab cranks up speed for a 100 G Ethernet world Uni New Hampshire also preps for PoE and auto standards TAPE LIVES... virtually: SpectraLogic and Veeam twin old and new tech Fresh take on the 3-2-1 rule Chef and HP cook up partnership for infrastructure as code – even on Windows HP Discover Infrastructure automation goes mainstream? Horton Hears an IPO: Hard work for Hadoop Comment $659m? REALLY? Silicon Valley's well-paid propellerheads All-flash upstart Kaminario trousers $53m, spills scale-up secrets K2 can grow higher What benchmarks CAN tell you about your solid-state drives What if you DON'T wish to torture data until it confesses to anything you want? Part 3: Docker vs hypervisor in tech tussle SMACKDOWN Comment We see you milling around the virty containers, VMware Boffins challenge Internet of Things' lust for power 20 billion sensors are all very well but nobody wants to pay the electricity bill Japanese monster manifests new PETAFLOP POWER Astronomy boffins swap out ATERUI's brain Hardware News Legendary Brit physicist Stephen Hawking gets full Intel comms refresh First kit-swap in 20 years after rapid word-per-minute decrease Sinclair is back with the Spectrum Vega ... just as rubbish as the ZX Comment Something a little sad about Sir Clive revisiting his old hit Apple invents NEVERSMASH iPHONE for fumbling fondlers Is it a bird? A plane? No, it's an expensive mobile phone No wristjob, please, we're Apple fans: Just 10% would buy the Apple Watch Don't scoff, though, that's still 24 million units – analyst Pebble: The brilliant stealth wearable Apple's Watch doesn't see coming Interview Meet the man who accidentally created the smartwatch hype Never fear, Glassholes – Intel to the rescue! 'New CPU' for tech-specs Chipzilla rumored to be lined up for Google headgear's next processor Internet Security Threat Report 2014 An overview and analysis of the year in global threat activity: identify, analyze, and provide commentary on emerging trends in the dynamic threat landscape. Download here > Networks News Tenacious Twitter tries to topple terrible trolls Blocked twits won't be able to stalk your account FCC bigwig grills Netflix: If internet fast lanes are so bad, why did YOU build them? Commish demands answers on 'conflict of interest' UK national mobile roaming: A stupid idea that'll never work Plus: Not spot rural mobile coverage sites each require NINETEEN signatures While the web stares at cat pics, the glue of the internet is being shifted from US govt control Proposal for key IANA contract published for public comment Security News Iranian CLEAVER hacks through airport security, Cisco boxen Plausibly-deniable Iranians suspected of Stuxnet reprisal attacks An alleged 27GB Sony Pictures data dump. 65 PlayStation web servers. One baffling mystery What were those EC2 cloud instances doing torrenting files? US parking operator: YEP, hackers got your names, credit card numbers, secret codes... DOH! Card expiration dates too FBI warns of disk NUKE malware after Sony Pictures megahack This thing could spread, say g-men Brits conned out of nearly £24m in phone scams IN ONE YEAR Folks keep handing out financial data to cold callers Device fingerprinting tech: It's not a cookie, but 'cookie' rules apply EU: You can't 'secretly identify or single out users' Silver-tongued phish bait lures execs, hooks M&A deals Swindlers savvy with corporate comms Government funds effort to secure wearable data pulses Skipping hand-in-hand with government and insurance company databases OpenVPN plugs DoS hole VPN providers patch! Everyone else relax. Software News One year on, Windows 8.1 hits milestone, nudges past XP Funny what lack of choice can do Science News Donors back boffins' wireless eye replacement 2015 targeted for trials of camera-to-optic-nerve kit Orion: To Mars, the Moon and beyond... but first, a TEST FLIGHT through Van Allen belt With handy 'any-time abort' should a KERPLUNK occur Hominid ancestors beat humans to the drinks cabinet, say boffins We're just aping our boozy ancestors FOUR, count 'em, FOUR big rockets launching in next seven days NASA tests Orion, Japanese head to asteroid, France and China loft satellites Bootnotes News Sick of the 'criminal' lies about pie? Lobby the government HERE That's just a stew with a pastry lid, sputter furious pie-botherers Internet Security Threat Report 2014 An overview and analysis of the year in global threat activity: identify, analyze, and provide commentary on emerging trends in the dynamic threat landscape. Download here >

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